The monthly site traffic feature is usually known as information transfer or bandwidth as well, however all of the aforementioned terms refer to the same thing - the amount of content can be transferred to and from a shared web hosting account. The website traffic can be produced in two ways, the more apparent one being site visits. When somebody goes to your site, their web browser requests and downloads the web pages from the hosting server and then displays them on their end. The more website visitors you have, the more outbound traffic is produced from your website hosting account. Due to the fact that this particular characteristic includes the total site traffic, not just your website visits, you should not forget that incoming traffic is measured too. This means that web site content along with other files that you upload to your account through a file manager or an FTP software are counted towards the account allowance. Your transfer is usually monitored on a monthly basis and the counter resets on the very first day of every month regardless of your actual registration date.